Improvement in carriage-curtain fasteners



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HOWARD DRAKE, OF ATTLEBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARRIAGE-CURTAIN FASTENERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,663, dated June 10,1873 application filed October 26, 1872. w

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HOWARD DRAKE, of Attleborough, in the county ofBristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and valuablelmprovementin GurtaiwButtons; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of the construction andoperation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawingsmaking a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures ofreference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a representation of a top view of myinvention. Figs. 2 and 4, details of same. Fig. 3 is a verticaltransverse section of same.

This invention has relation to fastenings for carriage-curtains and itconsists in the construction of a pivoted button having a catchlug usedin connection with a pair of connected slotted disks to receive saidbutton, all substantially as hereinafter described. The button is to besecured to the side of the carriage or window-frame and the slotteddisks attached to the curtain.

A represents the button, which is held by a screw passing through an eyein the center and allowing the button to turn easily. The

shank of the button is round, and terminates in a broad flat base, a,which keeps it in an even, steady position. B is alug projecting fromone side of the button at the outer end. 0 O designates a pair of thinmetallic disks havin g corresponding eyes d and slots 01, designed,

respectively, to receive the shank of the but ton and its lug. The disk0 has projections e on its edge, which are passed through the curtainand clinched over the edge of the disk 0, thus forming a simple andeflicient means of securingthe disk to the curtain. The lug, when thebutton is passed through the disks, naturally assumes a verticalposition. The slot d extends upward from the eye; hence the rattling orjolting motion of". the carriage is not likely to release the button.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The pivoted carriage-button A having the lug B, in combination with ametallic disk or disks, (J, having the eye (I and slot 0!, substantiallyas specified.

2. The carriage-button A with the flat base a, and provided with the lugB projecting at the outer end, as described.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

Witnesses:

JANE F. MOORE AMELIA H. DAGGETT.

HOWARD DRAKE.

